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This weekend in entertainment history

IT HAPPENED IN 1990: "Seinfeld" made its debut as "The Seinfeld Chronicles" on NBC. The cast of the television show “Seinfeld” (l-r) Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louise-Dreyfus, and Jason Alexander pose backstage with their awards at the 45th Annual Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 19, 1993 in Pasadena, Calif. Photo: Associated Press/Douglas C. Pizac

MAY 30

1968: The Beatles began recording the “White Album.”

1978: Swan Song Records announced that Led Zeppelin had entered the recording studio for the first time since the death of Robert Plant’s son a year earlier. The sessions became the band’s final album, “In Through The Out Door.”

1990: The band Midnight Oil gave a free concert on flatbed trucks outside of an Exxon building in response to the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.

In 2000, singer Johnnie Taylor died of an apparent heart attack at a hospital in Dallas. He was 62. He’s probably best known for songs like “Who’s Making Love” and “Disco Lady.” That same day, Latin bandleader Tito Puente (PWEN’-tay) died in New York from complications from open heart surgery. He was 77.

In 2006, Katie Couric appeared for the last time on NBC’s “Today” show after 15 years on the program. She left to anchor the “CBS Evening News.”